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Station 1Tornado Safety

• Where would you go during a tornado if you were
  (be detailed)
• 1. In a car
• 2. In a grocery store
• 3. At HSE in room B217
• 4. In your home
• 5. At a basketball game
• 6. In the B220 computer lab

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Station 2Tornadoes in Indiana

• Read the article and answer the questions on your
  sheet
• When is tornado season in Indiana?
• How far did the Tri-State tornado travel?
• On Palm Sunday 1965, how many tornadoes struck
  Indiana?
• When was the largest outbreak of tornadoes in
  Indiana?
• For the 2000-20001 season, how many people in
  Indiana were killed by tornadoes?

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Station 3 Tornado article

• Are there different kinds of tornados? Explain
• 2. When tornados most likely to occur?
• 3. What should we look at in the sky to identify
  likely conditions for a tornado?

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Station 4Creative Visual Interpretation

• Draw a town showing destruction that ranks an F5
  on the Fujita scale. Your picture must include
• Vehicle
• Barn
• Brick house
• Tall concrete office building
• Fence
• Road
• Trees

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Station 5Tornado Alley
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Station 6Anatomy of a tornado
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Station 7Tornado Damage Story

• Use the article to answer questions on your sheet
• What form did John see in the cloud?
• What happened to the roof and surrounding trees?
• Where did the family go for safety?
• How fast were the winds moving and how much
  pressure did that create?
• What members of the family did not survive the
  tornado?

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Station 8 Tornado History

• Go to http//www.tornadochaser.net/history.html
• Click on History
• 1. Who may have recorded the first tornado
  ever?In what year did that occur?
• 2. How did Samuel Stone describe the whirl
  wind?
• 3. How was the cloud described in the Connecticut
  Aug 1787 article different from the common
  thunder cloud?
• Go to http//www.tornadochaser.net/tornado.html
• (How does a tornado form)
• 4. What makes a tornadic thunderstorm more severe
  than an ordinary
• thunderstorm?
• 5. When is a thunderstorm defined as a
  mesocyclone?